La Nouvelle France: The Making of French Canada -- A Cultural History

La Nouvelle France: The Making of French Canada -- A Cultural History

Synopsis

La Nouvelle France is a candid exploration of the troubled historical relationship that exists between the inhabitants of French- and English-speaking Canada as well as a study of the colonial social institutions, values, and experiences that shaped modern French Canada. Moogk traces the roots of the Anglo-French cultural struggle to the seventeenth century discovering a New France vastly different from the one portrayed in popular mythology.